During a balance of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, the head of state directed the authorities to dedicate efforts to the improvement of the Barrio Adentro Mission and the strengthening of the High Technology Centers and the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Rooms.
In this sense, Maduro instructed governors and mayors to intensify the work of recovering outpatient clinics and guarantee their permanent operation, even if they are immersed in repair work or adaptation of spaces.
Two years after the application of the first radical quarantine measures to stop the spread of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the president recognized the strength of the Venezuelan health system to guarantee care for the population in the midst of the pandemic situation.
Maduro stressed that the timely adoption of decisions on control, prevention and medical assistance, allowed the rate of active cases to be reduced to five per 100,000 inhabitants today, one of the lowest globally.
The dignitary asserted that Venezuela was able to successfully and superiorly face the Covid-19 pandemic, which was a triumph for health and life in the face of one of the toughest tests that humanity has ever faced.
Likewise, he recognized the work of the Presidential Commission for the control of the health emergency, in addition to praising the work of the authorities and the scientific and healthcare personnel involved in confronting the coronavirus disease, including the professionals of the Cuban Medical Mission.
The head of state also called on the population not to trust and maintain prevention measures despite the low incidence of cases, in addition to going every four months to vaccination centers to receive booster doses.
According to official figures, the Venezuelan health authorities completed the immunization of all citizens over 18 years of age, while 60 percent of the country’s children and young people have already been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Venezuela has registered 518,460 confirmed cases, with a balance of 509,750 recovered patients, which represents 98 percent of all infections.
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